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Dom Sylvester Houedard (1924-92), often known as DSH, served with British military intelligence in Asia before becoming a Benedictine monk at Prinknash Abbey in Gloucestershire.While running the...

Dom Sylvester Houedard (1924-92), often known as DSH, served with British military intelligence in Asia before becoming a Benedictine monk at Prinknash Abbey in Gloucestershire.While running the...

An academic expert on China and global politics who was also a pioneering journalist has died.Franz Schurmann, the son of a German mother and a Slovenian father, was born in New York on 21 June 1926...
Is internationalisation a Western construct?Dzulkifli Abdul Razak, the vice-chancellor of University Sains Malaysia, argued that if internationalisation really was solely about the exchange of...

Donald MacRaild is impressed by a new spin on British imperialism, seen through the eyes of siblings
Authors: Nicola Green and Leslie HaddonEdition: FirstPublisher: A&C Black/BergPages: 190Price: £55.00 and £16.99ISBN 9781845208134 and 8141Mobile communication technologies have transformed human...
Harvard University has topped an annual world university ranking compiled by Shanghai Jiao Tong University for the eighth year in a row.The league table is once again dominated by US institutions,...
Universities face an uncertain future in the wake of the earthquake, reports Michael Fitzpatrick

Targeted global scholars respond in droves to Academic Reputation Survey. Phil Baty reports

Rapid global temperature shifts are nothing new, as Steve Yearley learns from a cold country's core
Too much research concentration may have contributed to the erosion of the US' position as a "colossus of science".A new report by Thomson Reuters shows that although the average citation impact of...
Data provided by Thomson Reuters from its Essential Science Indicators, 1981-2007
? = Review forthcomingARTS AND DESIGN- A Chord in Time: The Evolution of the Augmented Sixth from Monteverdi to MahlerBy Mark Ellis, theory, analysis and musicology tutor, University of Huddersfield...
CanadaCheers for 310 new chairsA C$5.6 million (£173 million) injection of funds for science and technology research aims to put Canada among the world leaders in those fields. Tony Clement, the...

Richard C. Levin says Truman-era principles have profound lessons for the future of research funding. Phil Baty reports